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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Teresa of Avila

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself

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